It might seem an odd moment to look back at the Iraq War, and at a speech given by Chris Hedges in 2004. Our President, inaugurated for the second time just yesterday, has drawn that war to a close. Further, he spoke in his Second Inaugural of reaching out in [...]

We of Jesus People USA are members of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC), a dynamic and open part of the Body of Christ providing to us a sense of homecoming.

Vector, the premiere “New Wave” group of the 1980s, did one more album in the mid-1990s I find as good if not better than their previous three or so efforts. “Temptation” explores the difficult terrain of learning spiritual lessons in the kiln of temptation, even failure. I’m reminded of Henri [...]

The folks at PBS Digital had a bit of fun, and the end result, “Garden of Your Mind,” is strangely moving.

Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (newjimcrow.com), discusses blackness and America’s legal and prison systems.

Perhaps an appropriate entry for Halloween season, Spooky Tooth’s 1969 LP “Ceremony” was one of the weirdest secular attempts to address the sacred. Actually, the LP didn’t begin as a Spooky Tooth project. Rather, one Pierre Henry hired the Tooth for his own album project, but (as legend has it) [...]

Kierkegaard’s personal life and grappling with a living faith in the face of the dead church continue in part 2 of the BBC’s “Kierkegaard – Sea of Faith.”

Christian philosopher and “solitary individual” Soren Kierkegaard is here contrasted with his contemporary Karl Marx. Kierkegaard (Danish for “church yard”) is explored not only as a philosopher but as a human being in part one of this BBC special.

This will likely have a small audience. I admit I laughed.

The Wiitala Brothers, twins who were born in Detroit Michigan and moved as children with their mother to Chicago and the Jesus People USA community, have been playing music for years.